Deep Is the Fen
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
A bewitching journey behind the closed doors of a secret society, featuring sinister toadmen, resistance witches and a steamy enemies-to-lovers romance, from the acclaimed author of A Hunger of Thorns.
Merriwether Morgan doesn't need a happily-ever-after. Her life in the idyllic town of Candlecott is fine just as it is: simple, happy, and with absolutely no magic. Magic only ever leads to trouble.
But Merry's best friend, Teddy, is joining the Toadmen - a secret society upholding backward thinking and suspiciously supernatural traditions - and she is determined to stop him. Even if it means teaming up with her academic arch-nemesis, Caraway Boswell, an ice-cold snob who hides his true face behind a glamour.
An ancient Toad ritual is being held in the nightmarish Deeping Fen, and if Merry doesn't rescue Teddy, she'll lose him forever. But the further she travels into Deeping Fen's foul waters, the more Merry wonders if she can possibly save her friend - or if she's walking straight into a trap.
Because there's nothing the Toadmen love more than a damsel in distress . . .
PRAISE FOR A HUNGER OF THORNS
'Completely entrancing.' - Amie Kaufman
'A lush, spellbinding tale with dangerously enchanting characters.' - CS Pacat
'Unlike anything else. Wilkinson creates a whole new kind of magic.' - Scott Westerfeld
'This is my kind of fairy tale: visceral and dark, lush and lovely.' - Kate J Armstrong
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A teen girl joins forces with her nemesis to save her best friend from a sinister secret society in this captivating fantasy from Wilkinson (A Hunger of Thorns). Seventeen-year-old Merry Morgan has hated dark magic ever since a witch's curse killed her mother and imbued Merry with Witch Sight, the ability to see magical energy. Today, her most pressing concern is whether to leave for university to continue competing with academic rival Caraway or stay with her bestie Sol and crush Teddy in the pastoral town of Candlecott, where dark magic is banned. Merry soon learns that Teddy has joined the Toadmen, an exclusive gentlemen's society steeped in Candlecott tradition. Only Merry can see that the Toadmen are using dark magic to perform illegal rituals, and so she determines to save Teddy before his soul is corrupted. When Caraway offers his aid, the unlikely pair set off on a path that leads to the unearthing of ancient magic, surprise romance, and the unraveling of Merry's world. An exposition-heavy start gives way to an immersive world in which Wilkinson employs beguiling imagery to craft a thought-provoking love letter to fierce and tenderhearted friendship. Protagonists cue as racially diverse. Ages 14–up.
